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Birthdays
- Jacobo Ficher ()
- Jean Wiéner ()
- Jaromir Weinberger (8 January)
- Ernest Steffan (22 January)
- Wladimir Vogel (29 February)
- Max Kuhn (28 April)
- Marius Monnikendam (28 May)
- Boris Vladimirovich Savel’ev (28 July)
- Ernesto Lecuona (0 August)
- Hekel Tavares (16 September)
- Roberto Gerhard (25 September)
- Howard Hanson (28 October)
- Virgil Thomson (25 November)
- Boleslaw Szabelski (3 December)
- Roger Huntington Sessions (28 December)
Dying days
- Ambroise Thomas (12 February)
- Clara Schumann (20 May)
- Antonio Carlos Gomes (16 September)
- Anton Bruckner (11 October)
- Spyridon Xyndas (25 November)
Music events
- Premiere of La Bohème, in Turino, Italy. (1 February) → Giacomo Puccini
- Premiere of Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, in Berlin, Germany, with Mahler conducting. (16 March) → Gustav Mahler
- Premiere of the cello concerto in b minor op. 104, in London, England, with Dvořák conducting. (19 March) → Antonín Dvořák
- Premiere of Andrea Chénier, in Milan, Italy. (28 March) → Umberto Menotti Maria Giordano
- Premiere of Der Corregidor, in Mannheim, Germany. (7 June) → Hugo Wolf
- Premiere of Vier Ernste Gesänge op. 121, in Vienna, Austria. (9 November) → Johannes Brahms
- Premiere of Also sprach Zarathustra op. 30, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, with Strauss conducting. (27 November) → Richard Strauss
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